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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  really big challenge for me. This would best be explained by describing to ... 's really hard to typify what it's like being here in a few short words or ... 're here. When you stroll down the Infinite on your way to class with a

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  , almost like my innate daftness is an excuse for not being able to learn. In ... 't know if I can. But maybe that's just me being me again: too lazy to learn ... that my work ethic is going to be the thing that dooms me, and now I just

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  Don't forget to vote for me in the 2008 blogging scholarship competition! Thanks! One of the biggest culture shocks coming to MIT for me, a ... conversation-snippits that I caught as I passed by people. In high school I was

  • by Snively '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m laughing out loud cheek. muscles. cramping.

  

  -chance that it will also be therapeutic to you, here are a few things that have ... !!!!) and saying "Forget science. I'm dropping out to be a Benedict ... semester, MIT undergraduates are flooded by e-mails reminding us to fill out

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  's almost like we're not crippled by our social awkwardness! I may be being a ... isn't geeky enough?! I mean, with a place like this, there's got to be ... chances of success by adhering to a set of guidelines as a passionless means

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  little ways by myself to trip over logs. Here, I've encountered the same ... calories), being with friends. This is what it looked like: The road to camp ... and I wanted to make friends. It turned out to be more than I bargained

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  snickers, like "why does a chemical engineer want to be an actor, too?" But to me, it's not about acting. Fundamentally, it's about being ... event at Harvard, and decided that MIT would be the perfect setting to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  -related topics to write about. Today's entry was requested by Anonymous (come on ... have the same question. It can be intimidating to go alone to a new place ... , and other activities I've done. However, I thought it might be fun to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!

  

  alumni that have lived on my hall, going all the way back to the MIT class ... created by students just like us. It was incredible speaking to alumni who used to be in our shoes so many years ago!  I just kept thinking how

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  will tread lightly because I think there's a lot of things to be ... specific space. To be with this specific guy in this specific frat in a house ... mouth every time I had to walk by their doors or hold conversations. They

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  thoughts, I hope to publish it (of course, with the blessing of the powers-that-be ... going to be living in the same dorm as him. I lived in a triple during my ... the single bed by the window by putting my sleeping bag on it prior to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  encounter with the wall earlier that week, HAD to bring up that by some FREAK ... , and I made our trek to Walker Memorial. It used to be a gym but now it ... again, I've only been there to take exams. We made our way up to the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  that boiled down to “to be determined.” We were really upset. We didn ... . Because to be totally honest, we had done very minimal research into other ... finished applying to colleges, we tried being as calm as possible about all

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  being unable to do it is like watching the battery drain from all my ... up to the midterm and worse afterwards, but ended up doing way better ... understand what people meant by "being productive with the time you waste

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  You Are LUSCIOUS I lusciously answer some of your questions

  

  lucky enough to receive. You didn't mean for me to parade by myself, did ... always struck me as a tad odd that I should be "getting to know" a college ... connect you to resources or people that can. Some of those people can be

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  parts I found confusing. To be honest, I also secretly wanted to find more excuses to hang out with him. Either way, we made an appointment, and at ... point: when I found out that Alan Guth was going to be my advisor, my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  U-Haul (moving day in Boston; none to be found) and then a rental car ... membership activation), we cut our losses and just had it shipped by freight to ... You know you’re in a sad place when you’re so desperate to

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Events

  It’s Almost Here! The sun? Orientation? Only time will tell.

  

  weather attempts to dampen our moods, campus-wide excitement will not be ... full week. There seemed to be events going on 24 hours a day! While this ... (Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program, not to be confused with UROP, the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biochemistry at its finest!

  

  platelets congregate to repair the cut by creating a clot. What you may not ... on taking 7.05 and don't want the surprise to be ruined!) That's all ... in it, while the other was the same as before. By the way, Yaffe

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  of way. I'm back home, surrounded by the interminable expanse of flat ... , when the future (the one where you have to be a responsible adult and ... to smile about and some not so-happy ones to be proud to have gotten

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019